Endeavour Forum

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Endeavour Forum
Founded1979
Location
Area served
Australia
Key people
Babette Francis
Website http://www.endeavourforum.org.au/

Endeavour Forum (originally Women Who Want to be Women) is a conservative political organisation describing itself as "a Christian, pro-life, pro-family organisation that was founded to counter feminism, to defend the right to life of the unborn, and to support marriage and the natural family." It was founded in 1979 by Babette Francis AM and has links to similar groups, such as the Australian Family Association and the World Congress of Families. It exerted strong influence on the Fraser government of the seventies and eighties and the Queensland state government led by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen (1911-2005) until it fell due to internal government corruption in the late nineties.

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The Endeavour Forum is listed on the Australian National Women's Register as a lobby group and as a "women's rights organisation". [1] Formerly known as "Women Who Want to be Women", it is now known as Endeavour Forum because the organisation recognised that men comprised a significant proportion of their membership and therefore their original name was inappropriate.

Lobbying

The Endeavour Forum campaigns against abortion [2] [3] with Francis being the Australian representative of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. [4] [5]

The Endeavour Forum has raised concerns regarding Islam in Australia and its radicalisation. [6] [7] [8]

The organisation was a partner of the Coalition for Marriage in advancing the "No" case, associated with the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.

The Endeavour Forum's founder, Babette Francis, was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) by the Governor-General of Australia in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours List. [9] She recently retired from the leadership of the organisation that she founded and is which is now led wholly by men.

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References

  1. ↑ Carey, Jane (16 March 2004). "Australian National Women's Register". Australian National Women's Register. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  2. ↑ Francis, Babette (21 November 2012). "Abortion's short-sighted 'solution' delivers long-term heartbreak". ABC. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Phillips, Francis (18 June 2012). "Fight breast cancer – by speaking out against abortion". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Babette Francis" . Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  5. ↑ "AbortionBreastCancer". Abortion Breast Cancer. 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  6. ↑ Masanauskas, John (27 January 2014). "Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer of Stop Islamisation of Nations set to speak here". Herald Sun . Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  7. ↑ Masanauskas, John (23 July 2012). "Muslim women thrive with pool man ban". Herald Sun . Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  8. ↑ O'Brien, Connor (30 September 2014). "Anti-Islam, but pro-gay? How mosque opponents tie themselves in knots". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  9. ↑ Sarwal, Amit. "Thirteen Indian-Australians in Queen's Birthday 2022 Honours List, Here's detail - The Australia Today" . Retrieved 20 June 2022.
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